Annotatio IV §.IX: Chrysostom Hom. 45 — mysteries spiritually; intelligible gift of body and blood
Chrysostom (Hom. 45 on John) strips carnality from the mysteries and from the Supper’s carnal presence and participation.
Mysteries are for interior eyes — spiritual. As baptism’s sensible water carries an intelligible regeneration-gift, so the intelligible gift of body and blood is received by faith’s spiritual intelligence, not by bodily action.
Latin
PRIOR uti à Mysteriis omnibus Carnalitatem, sic à S. Cœna, corporis Christi carnalem tùm præsentiam, tùm participationem, semoturus, Homil. 45. in Johannem ita commentatur: Mysteria, inquit, non sunt carnaliter, sed interioribus oculis, i. e. spiritualiter, consideranda & contemplanda; Hujusmodi enim est Mysteriorum natura. Et paucis interjectis, sic pergit: Sicut in Baptismo, sensibili aqua elemento, intelligibile Regenerationis donum; ita etiam INTELLIGIBILE hoc corporis & sanguinis Christi donum, non corporea aut sensibili aliquâ actione, sed spirituali fidei intelligentiâ, animo atque mente percipitur.